Publikationen

Disclaimer:

IEEE Copyright Notice

This material is presented to ensure timely dissemination of scholarly and technical work. Copyright and all rights therein are retained by authors or by other copyright holders. All persons copying this information are expected to adhere to the terms and constraints invoked by each author's copyright. In most cases, these works may not be reposted without the explicit permission of the copyright holder.

ACM Copyright Notice

These are the authors' versions of the work. The copyright is with ACM. They are posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. See individual publication details for information on the publication of the definitive versions.

Springer-Verlag LNCS Copyright Notice

The copyright of these contributions has been transferred to Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York. The copyright transfer covers the exclusive right to reproduce and distribute the contribution, including reprints, translations, photographic reproductions, microform, electronic form (offline, online), or any other reproductions of similar nature. Online available from Springer-Verlag LNCS series.

Work that appeared before the 1st of September 2003 was published while the authors were with the Lehrstuhl Praktische Informatik IV at the University of Mannheim.

Compliance management for peer-to-peer networksdescribes a process ensuring that content inside the network isdistributed and stored in a way that does not violate user definedpreferences. Several use cases, ranging from filesharing networksto distributed computing and content delivery networks, canbe enhanced with compliance management. To our knowledgethere are no existing peer-to-peer architectures which allowfor compliance management. In this paper we propose anarchitecture, which utilizes policy-based routing and storage aswell as a categorization of content in order to provide compliancemanagement. We implement a prototype and evaluate it throughsimulations to show that compliance management in peer-to-peernetworks is actually feasible.